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Authorised form of nameRoupell; George Leith (1797 - 1854)
Dates1797 - 1854
Date of birth18 September 1797
Place of deathWelbeck Street, London
Date of death29 September 1854
ActivityEducation:
MD
Career:
Physician, St Bartholomew's Hospital (by 1839)
Memberships:
FRCP
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/12/1839
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA6291
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1839/42Roupell, George Leith: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/1/124Referee's report by George Leith Roupell and George Owen Rees 'Contributions to the chemistry of the urine. Part II - On the variations in the alkaline and Earthy phosphates in disease' by Henry Bence Jones23 May 1846
RR/1/204Referee's report by George Leith Roupell, on a paper 'Experiments relative to animal temperature, showing that there must be some source of animal heat besides the combustion of the carbon and the hydrogen contained in the food of animals' by Robert Rigg25 June 1846
RR/1/199Referee's report by George Leith Roupell, on a paper 'On a function of the red corpuscles of the blood, and on the process of arterialization' by George Owen Rees8 November 1847
RR/1/219Referee's report by George Leith Roupell, on a paper 'An account of the desquamation and change of colour in a 'negro' [sic] of Upper Guinea, West Africa' by Thomas S Savage25 June 1846
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